Sutton Images Enlarge Pastor Maldonado's fastest time on the first day of testing in Barcelona was not achieved with low fuel, according to the Venezuelan driver. The Lotus driver clocked a 1:25.011 in the afternoon, which was faster than Lewis Hamilton's pole position time at the Spanish Grand Prix last year. Maldonado was using soft compound tyres - as opposed to the medium compound tyres used by Hamilton last year - but insists it was not a glory run to bag the fastest time. "What we know is that we were always doing long runs around 10-12 laps, so we had fuel enough to do some different tests and good laps, and after the laps to do some long runs," he said. "It was just...
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